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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The narrator is outside of the story and tells the story from the perspective of only one character.






2. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.






3. The reason the author has written a piece of literature.


4. The emotion or feeling a word creates.






5. The traditional beliefs and customsof a group of people that have been passed down orally.






6. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama.






7. The way people speak in various parts of the country or around the world.






8. A figure of speech in which a part of something represents its whole.






9. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.






10. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.






11. A metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables.






12. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.






13. A brief witty poem - often satirical.






14. The time and place of a story or play.






15. A historical or literary reference to a person - place - thing - or event that the reader is expected to recognize.






16. The organizational form of a literary work.






17. What a story or play is about.






18. A six-line unit of verse constituting a stanza or section of a poem.






19. Broken down acts.






20. A struggle or clash between opposing characters - forces - or emotions.






21. Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable.






22. A character struggles with himself/herself and his/her opposing needs.






23. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.






24. The process by which the writer presents and reveals a character.






25. The use of symbols in literature to convey meaning.






26. A technique designed to enact social change by using wit to rificule ideas - customs or institutions.






27. A type of form or structure in poetry characterized by regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme - line length - and metrical pattern.






28. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.






29. A story passed down over the generations that was once believed to be true.






30. A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words.






31. A short saying with a moral.






32. A figure of speech in which a closely related term is substituted for an object or idea.






33. Refers to how a piece of literature is written rather than to what is actually said.






34. The resolution of the plot of a literarture work.






35. A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas - characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style.






36. As the conflict(s) develop and the characters attempt to revolve those conflicts - suspense builds.






37. The conversation of characters in a literary work.






38. The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.






39. A recurring pattern found in a work or works of literature; the pattern is usually representative of something else.






40. A poem of thirty-nine lines and written in iambic pentameter.






41. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.






42. The difference between what a character expects and what the reader knows will happen.






43. The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry.






44. A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero.






45. An interruption of a work's chronology to describe or present an incident that occurred prior to the main time frame of a work's action.






46. The person who 'tells' the story.






47. A Greek term first used by Aristotle to describe the emotional cleansing or purification that results after watching a tragedy performed on stage.






48. The narrator is outside of the story and is all-knowing or 'God-like' because he/she knows everything that occurs and everything that each character thinks and feels.






49. The character or force with which the protagonist conflicts.






50. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.